Phonograph attachment for kinetoscopes.



P. J. MUKAUTZ.

PHONOGRAPH ATTACHMENT POR KINETOSCOPES.'

APPLICATION FILED APB. 6,-1910. 1,020,362, 1 Patented Mar.12, 1912.

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. P. J. MUKAUTZ.

PHONOGRAPH ATTACHMENT FOR KINETOSGOPES.

APPLIUATION FILED Arms, 1910.

1,020,362,4 v Patented Mar. 12, 1912.

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/NVENTOH 4 f d ATTORNEYS P. J. MUKAUTZ.

PHONOGRAPH ATTACHMENT FOR KINETOSGOPES.

APPLICATION FILED Arms. 1910.

1,020,362. i Patented Mar. 12, 1912.

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UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIcE.

PETER JOHN MUKAUTZ, F KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

PHONOGBAAPH ATTACHMENT FOR KINETOSCOPES.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Mfar, 12, 1912, Application led April 6, 1910.

Serial No. 553,717.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER J. MUKAUTZ, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented a new and Improved Phonograph Attachment for Kinetoscopes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to record holders for phonographs used invconnection with kinetoscopes, the phonograph supplying the lines for the actors in the pictures projected by the kinetoscope.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts, to be more fully described hereinafter and particularly set forth in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this speci- .cation, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the machine, certain parts of which are shown in section and broken away; Fig. 2 is'a cross section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1 and upon an enlarged scale; this View illust-rates especially the construction of a clutch by me.r v1s of which the record holder is thrown in or out of operation; Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1 and further illustrating the construction of the record holder; this view is also upon an enlarged scale; Fig. 4 is a cross section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 1 and further illustrating the construction of the holder; this view is upon anenlarged scale; Fig. 5 is a cross section on the line 5 5 of Fig. 1; this view is upon an enlarged scale; and Fig. 6 is a side elevation illustrating a shaft connection which I employ where the phonograph is located at a distance from the kinetoscope; this view is upon a reduced scale, and certain parts are broken away and shown in section.

Referring more particularly to the parts, 1 represents the frame of the machine, which is of elongated form, presenting a base 2 which rests upon a support such as a table,

and an upwardly extending side plate 3. At

one end, an end wall 4 is provided, adjacent to which there is placed a web or frame plate 5, dis osed in a vertical position-as indicated. t the opposite end of the frame, abearing block 6 is mounted upon a pivot 5 7, ad this bearing block is normally held in an erect position by means of a suitable spring 8, as shown.

Rotatably mounted between the bearing 6 and the web 5, there is provided a shaft 49 held in a horizontal position as indicated. 6 The extremity of the shaft adjacent to the bearing G is formed into a conical point 10 which is received in a conical bore 11 formed in the face of the bearing as shown. Adjacent to the web 5, a cross head 12 is attached to the shaft 9; a similar cross .head 13 is provided near the middle portion of the shaft. The cross head 12 is rigidly attached to a main gear wheel 14, and this gear wheel meshes with a driving gear wheel 1 5 `vwhich is mounted on the frame plate 5 as shown. The cross head 12 is held against the frame plate 5 by a collar 16 which is held on the shaft 9 by a suitable set screw 17 as indicated most clearly in Fig. 5. The cross head 12 has oppositely projecting arms which are provided with longitudinally eX- vtending dog-bars 18. Upon these bars near the cross-head 12, as shown in Fig. 1, there is mounted a head 19, the' construction of which is most clearly shown in Fig. 4; it consists ofa circular plate having oppositely disposed ears 20 arranged in pairs around the periphery thereof. A sliding cross head 13 is provided, and between the head 13 and the head 19, tubular sleeves 21 are provided, which surround the dog-bars 18. Brace-bars 28 connect the heads 19 and 13 as shown.

The head 13 is of substantially circular form, and on its outer side is formed with a sleeve 22 carrying a loose collar 23 provided with laterally projecting ears 24 to which radial links 25 are pivot-ally attached, as shown, giving this part of the machine the form of a spider. The links 25 operate as arms of the spider, as will be readily understood. The outer'. extremities of the links or arms 25 attach pivotally to longitudinally extending clamping bars 26, the opposite extremities whereof are ivotally ttached between the ears 20, as indlcated in The collar 23 is adjustable on the sleeve 22, and is adapted to be secured thereto at any desired point by means of a set screw 27. With this construction, it will be evident that if the collar 23 is forced toward the frame plate 5, it will operate toforce the clamping bars 26 outwardlv vin such a way 110 as to enable them to clamp upon theinner side of a cylindrical record 29, indicated in dotted outline. Substantially the half por-, v

19 and on the outer side thereof, I provide a clutch 31, the construction of .whichis very y clearly shown in Fig. 2. This clutch con- "sists of two levers 32,*which are disposed oppositely and pivotedat 33, the outer ends o the levers being formed intoextensions 34 to receive the pressure of ones fingers. The inner ends of the levers are drawn together by a spring 35, and are provided with shoes 36 which have threaded faces andi which engage with the threads of the shaft.E Adjacent to the point where the shoes 36' are applied to the shaft, the head is provided with a collar 37 which is formed on the opposite sides withnotches or recesses 38, as indicated, through which the shoes arel applied.

` With the driving gear 15 referred to above.; a pinion 39 meshes on the upper side, and` the shaft of this pinion is connected by' bevel gears 40 with a vertical shaft 41, and this vertical shaft is driven throughbevelf gears 42 by a horizontal shaft 43 which extends out from the kinetoscope 44, the said, kinetoscope beingpreferably mounted upon? a horizontal plate 45 disposed at one end of..

the Yframe 1, 'as indicated. The shaft 43 isi extended as shown, so as to` enable the application ofa crank 46 by means of which thei phonograph and the kinetoscope may be si multaneously driven.

.On the under side of the main gear wheel` 141 a pinion 47 meshes, and this pinion is connected, through gearing 48, with a governo'r 49, of common construction, the said governor being provided with counterweights 50 which are adapted to fly out-` wardly so as to prevent racing of the 1na' chine. Thev weights 50 exert a certainf amount of drag on the governor shaft and` f The consequently on the speed of the record.. The farther the weights are away radially 1 from the governor shaft, the more drag will be exerted and the governorV shaft will bef slowed in proportion.

mouth-piece 51 is mounted in a fixed position and car-- ries a stylus.' 52, which `is adapted totouch;

the face of'the record in the manner indi-i cated.- `llVhen' the device begins to operate, the record and record holder will oc'l cupy substantially the position in which are shown in Fig. 1, the body ofl thestylus. ever, and the machine started, the rotation vof the main gear wheel 14 will drive the cross head 12 and the dog-bars 18 thereof will drive the u head 19. As the rotation` of the l horn takes place, the shoes 36l which are in engagement with the threads of the fixed shaft 9,'operate to advance the record holder tonearlyV withdrawn from the sleeves 21. 7

When it is desired -to remove the record, this is 'accomplished by swinging the bearing block 6 toward the left by means of the thumb piece 54 which it carries. The thumb screw 27 is then unscrewed so as to enable the clamping bars 26 to be moved radially inward at one end. In this way the clamping bars 26 are withdrawn'fr'm the cylinder record, and the record may then be removed by a longitudinal movement.

Attention is called to the. shaft connection extending between the kinetoscope and the phonograph. It will be understood,

` from this arrangement, that the kinetoscope and phonograph will move in unison, so

.that if the record is attached in the proper position with respect to the pictures whlch appear upon the screen, this correspondence e will be maintained in such a way that when the actors are represented as moving about, 91

the phonograph will repeat the words which the vactors are supposed to have used.

It may happen that it is not convenient, in practice, to place the kinetoscope and phonograph attachment near Under these circumstances, I employ a con-l nection of some kind between them, such-,as I have illustrated in Fig. 6. The arrangement illustrated consists of a shaft 55 which is formed in sections 56, the same beingv con- 1` nected together by universal` couplings 57, as illustrated. Near thel ends of the shaft sections, suitable bearings 58 arel provided,4

and the shaft sections v'are preferably 1nclosed in tubular sleeves or casings 59. 1

With this arrangement, the kinetosc'ope' and phonograph attachment may b at any distance apart desired, while a constant angular or synchronous relation will be maintained between them. e Where it is not con- I venient to use the shaft shown-in Fig. 6, I may synchronize the kinetoscope 'by other suitable means. l

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and Patent: v l

1. In a4 phonograph, in combination, a ixed shaft having screw threads formed thereupon, a head rotatably mounted on ,said s haft, a'second head rotatably mounted 1 on sald shaft and carryinga sliding collar,

links'pivotallyattached to said slidingcollar -andextending radially therefrom, clamping'bars connecting said links with saiderst head, means for adjusting said 1 together. 11

desire to secure by Letters *1 sliding collar, avclutch attached tolsaid rst head and engaging said screw threads, and

a cross head affording means for driving said first head and having bars adapted-to engage` the same as it progresses longitudinally of said shaft. l

2. In a phonograph, in combination, .a xed shaft having screw threads formed thereupon, a head rotatably mounted on said shaft, a cross head opposite said head and rotatably mounted on said shaft, `a collapsible spider connected with said cross head and having radially projecting arms,

clamping bars connecting said arms with the first named head', tubular members connecting said cross head with said first head, a drivin cross head having bars extending longitudlnally of said shaft and disposed within said tubular members, means for driving said-last cross head, and a clutch carried by said rst head and adapted to engage said threads.

3. In al phonograph and in'combination, a shaft, a head on the shaft, a movable cross head on the shaft, a collapsible spider connected with the cross head and having radially projecting arms, yclamping bars connecting the arms with the first named head, al driving cross head, and a connection between the said driving cross head and the first-named head.

- In testimony whereof I- have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PETER JOHN MUKAUTZ. `Witnesses GORDON PERRY TORRANCE, THOMAS A. BRAY. 

